It is easy to see why Tara McKelvey is the first supposed journalist to get close to Watada in more than a year, her article is a typical leftist antiwar hit piece.
Also, the link of the "recent release" they refer to is a Fox News piece of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report and almost two years old.
Sounds like Mr. Watada owns a yellow stripe...down his back.
He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.
GENERAL PATTON—— What would you do with him sir ????????
Then send him to Afghanistan. On a solo recon mission. Fresh, bright new BDU's. In the mountains. It's legal.
He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.
He joined during the war. He obviously has an agenda.
Bust him down to E-1 and have him serve his commitment on "weeds and seeds"
Is it punishment, or did they put him there so he can't f#$k up anything important?
Check your history. This is willfull disobediance to orders and could be construde as cowardice. If memory serves the UCMJ stills lists those as offenses punishable by death by firing squad or some such less punishment. There was a time before we became to civilised that the answer would have been easy - find a convient wall and eight soldiers with loaded weaponds.
Just think of his affect on his unit’s cohesion and morale.....firing squad.
Above from wikipedia...note family pattern, and attendance at Hussein's old school.
No question; criminal. He refused to obey a lawful order from his superiors.
1. Why did he enlist knowing there was a war going on ???
2. Why did he re-enlist knowing that there was a war going on ???
3. Do pledges meant nothing to him ????
I was trying to calculate how long the Lt. can look forward to being in uniform. His current efforts before a federal judge will take about a year, then as long as three years for the appeals process, and *then* his court martial, followed by a possible sentence of six years.
He might not get out of the military until 2018. That is, assuming he doesn’t still have any further obligation that he will have to meet as a private, when all is said and done.
Draft-dodgers are one thing, deserters quite another.
Draft-dodgers I can understand, even if I disagree with them but I HATE DESERTERS. It’s much more personal.
This arrogant child of privilege (see wikipedia biography) was not drafted and he knew the deal when he volunteered, that his right to actively oppose policy was suspended for the duration of his service. He accepted this condition of his own free will.
Now, he has deserted his comrades and he has done so under fire. Within living memory, he would have been put against a wall and shot for this.
He still could be if the media-left collapses farther and faster than we expect.
The sissy boy should be rotting in prison for a long long time. Why isn’t here in jail already?
Anybody remember this guy? http://www.mikenew.com/
A military where soldiers - officers or otherwise - think they can choose which order to obey and which not to obey, which missions to accept and which not to accept, is chaos that cannot be an effective fighting force. Of course that doesn’t bother a lot of people.
The Army serves a democracy, but the Army is not a democracy.
I think he's a wimp.
So here we are 2 1/2 years later and this punk is still sitting fat and pretty while the Army JAG lawyers kick the can down the road. Prediction- Watada will walk, quietly and without official fanfare with an honorable discharge just so the Army can get this scum behind them.
Wow, some punishment, chilling out at I Corps at Lewis while the rest of us slogged it out in Iraq for 15 months.
Word was that Watada had been fired from a couple of other jobs in his battalion even before he started this pathetic crusade of his.
Not exactly a model officer.